Governmental Entities

Winton M. Blount, the Postmaster General, discusses the problems of the of the U.S. Post Office Department (1969?). The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the U.S. Postal Service, an independent establishment of the executive branch. Visit msnbc.com for...
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On Thursday, April 15, 2010, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to examine the status of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), and on recent reports on short and long-term strategies for its financial viability and stability. The hearing was titled: “Continuing to Deliver: An Examination of the Postal Service’s...
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Claire Puccia Parham, The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project: An Oral History of the Greatest Construction Show on Earth (Syracuse University Press, 2009).  The publisher describes it thus: The culmination of a century-long dream to link the Great Lakes interior industrial hubs to the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project...
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The Government Accountability Office published this lengthy survey of “designated federal entities,” a term that include disparate entities from the Smithsonian Institution (21 USC 41), the National Archives and Records Administration (44 USC 2102), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (15 USC 789(d)). The specific objectives of this report are to (1) describe and...
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In the U.S. Code, one finds the following “independent establishments of the executive branch” mentioned: (1) the National Center for Productivity and Quality of Working Life (15 USC 2411); (2) the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation (20 USC 2004); (3) the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation (20 USC 4502); (4) the Barry Goldwater Scholarship...
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